Mists of Pandaria: Engineering Overview (Updated for 5.4)

This guide tracks all the additions and changes to Engineering in Mists of Pandaria.

Engineering in Mists of Pandaria takes the most memorable items from past expansions and makes them even better. There's now a wide assortment of quirky items including mounts, robots that hand out gifts, and belts that let you walk on water. In addition, many of these cool items are not limited to Engineers anymore--anyone can use the fun Dragonling trinkets!

Added in 5.1, players can now party with Blingtron and get an hour-long buff, Dressed to Kill. This buff turns you into a human, puts you into a black or white suit, and gives you a wild hat like Stylin' Jungle Hat.

BoP Item Enhancements

Hands

: Permanently attaches a mounted fireworks launcher to your gloves, allowing a skilled engineer to deal (35 * 7) Fire damage over 3 sec to an enemy at long range. The launcher can only be fired once every 45 sec.

: Permanently attaches lightweight transfluxers onto gloves, allowing you to partially phase and increase dodge by 20520 for 10 sec. Gloves can only be activated once every minute.

: Permanently attaches synapse springs to your gloves, allowing you to increase your highest primary statistic by 1920 for 10 sec. The gloves can be activated every minute.

Belt

Watergliding Jets: Permanently attaches waterjets to your belt, allowing you to walk on water and swim quickly for up to 6 sec.

Back

Goblin Glider: Permanently attaches a specialized folding assembly to a cloak, allowing you to deploy a goblin glider and fall slowly for 30 sec. The glider has some initial thrust and allows you to turn while falling.

Comments

Comment by zomg5

on 2012-06-19T21:32:32-05:00

aw bogus and i had to drop engineering for BS fml now i have make one of my alts a engineer

Comment by rockmanzero

on 2012-06-19T21:53:42-05:00

Finally Blizzard realized that they didn't really give much attention to Engineering in Cata (how many new good and fun things were added, I remember not a lot). And they go back with the old trends of Wormholes and mounts which is pretty fun and the goggles are going to become pretty handy for everyone that has a gathering skill.

Comment by Ryuthedragon

on 2012-06-19T22:11:09-05:00

Does anyone know what Blingtron will give ?

Comment by spiny64

on 2012-06-20T00:02:43-05:00

Wow, Enrineering in MoP looks very promising. I really hope they improve the rocket model. New belt tinker.... awwww, its gonna be really hard to choose between Nitro Boost and the new Watergliding Jets.... the boost is priceless in pvp...

I wish there are more weird toys, like the Gravity Well, Loot a rang, Bolt Gun, ect. Would love to have a catapult to fling ppl around :P

Comment by chrisspiderozzy

they keep changeing it so dont expect a straight number untill it goes live

Comment by Mosays

on 2012-06-20T08:16:14-05:00

Great stuff coming out in Mists, by the look of this. Finally! My engineer languished in Cataclysm. I have been surprised that Blizzard didn't give us the option to get the chest bomb from Helix Gearbreaker in Deadmines. That would have been a nice addition, if it was incorporated as a 4 second disorient, and then a nice happy, fireworky kaboom at the end. Call it Helix's Hotfoot, and turn my rogue loose with it!

Comment by Ricsilver

on 2012-06-20T08:57:51-05:00

Rocket Mount <3 Lovely!

Comment by mvallas

on 2012-06-20T10:23:19-05:00

Thanks for the helmet tip--added :)

No prob! Thanks for checking back and updating too! ^_^

Comment by calilac

on 2012-06-20T10:34:37-05:00

My happy dance turned into ecstatic flailing with this news, I knew they were adding some new fun to engi but this list exceeds expectations :D

I wish there are more weird toys, like the Gravity Well, Loot a rang, Bolt Gun, ect. Would love to have a catapult to fling ppl around :P

Yes to the catapult! Also, I've always wanted a grappling hook for my engineer rogue. Not really practical for ingame but it would still be so much fun.

Comment by Serf

on 2012-06-20T11:35:53-05:00

I wonder how the mist-piercing goggles are going to work. I know it says it will help you see more ´nodes´.. But it also says hides too, which makes no sense. Sounds like it will just be like the guild perk? Or else Blizz plans to have random invisable corpses laying around that can only be seen iwth the goggles.

it helps you see more nodes, hides, and herbs- Mining, skinning and herbalism. Nodes have always been mining nodes, hides are skinned hides, and herbs- well, self-evident. In other words, it's a electrostatic Condenser for node materials rather than a secondary item, much like how northern cloth tailoring gives bonus cloth.

@perculia: You actually made a mistake here stating that Deepdive helmet cannot be trained anymore in Cataclysm; It can be trained at any engineer trainer, in fact. Just the recipe was taken out so it can no longer be bought all the way out in the boonies.

Comment by Interest

they keep changeing it so dont expect a straight number untill it goes live

I don't think the value was 700 at any point in time. I'm getting 500 from other sources as well.

Comment by GeneralMeow

on 2012-06-20T15:54:51-05:00

Thank you Blizzard. Engineering really needed some attention.

PS: I think Serf is right. I can create Deepdive Helmets, but I didn't start until after the launch of Cataclysm.

Comment by Gunndykol

on 2012-06-21T11:34:04-05:00

Unless my math is wrong, Synapse Springs will give 2940 * 10 / 60 = 490 agi/str/int per minute. This will end up being better than all the other crafting professions since they only give 320 agi/str/int last I checked.

It's only effectively 490 to a stat if you click it every time, each time it comes off cooldown. In most cases on-use cooldowns are used on 2 minute or larger intervals to align with other cooldowns or "burn" phases, which brings this down to an affective 245 stat bonus while the permanents remain a 320.

Generally on-use bonues are a little larger than static bonues for just this reason.

Comment by WyvernVJ

on 2012-06-21T13:07:47-05:00

I'm still hoping they add engineering helm-tinkers to replace head enchants.

Comment by Yzzami

on 2012-06-21T16:28:17-05:00

Big Tauren in a tiny rocket!

Also: Perhaps remove restrictions on some of the goggles to not require engineering to help out engineers even more?

Comment by Rystrave

on 2012-06-21T16:57:10-05:00

Quick questions: how does engineering fair with jewelcrafting? Right now I'm a JC'er, and my mining just gives me a toughness buff. Would it be beneficial to have engineering with jc'ing, or just go blacksmithing (which has no charm to it whatsoever)?

Comment by Nifel

on 2012-06-22T03:55:42-05:00

There is a picture of it just below the text.

Comment by matheus314

on 2012-06-22T12:14:19-05:00

Now tell me where i can find all these recipes on the Beta Test, and it'll be GOLDEN!

Comment by Interest

on 2012-06-22T14:39:11-05:00

Unless my math is wrong, Synapse Springs will give 2940 * 10 / 60 = 490 agi/str/int per minute. This will end up being better than all the other crafting professions since they only give 320 agi/str/int last I checked.

It's only effectively 490 to a stat if you click it every time, each time it comes off cooldown. In most cases on-use cooldowns are used on 2 minute or larger intervals to align with other cooldowns or "burn" phases, which brings this down to an affective 245 stat bonus while the permanents remain a 320.

Generally on-use bonues are a little larger than static bonues for just this reason.

Isn't the case atm. It was a perfect stat match with static bonuses if the Synapse Springs was used on CD (+80). I would almost argue that it should actually be weaker since if you line it up with other cooldowns the stat bonus is put to much better use.

Comment by elwood66

on 2012-06-22T16:27:01-05:00

most memorable items from past expansions and makes them even better.(4Hrs Cooldown)